Chinese medicine & diabetic acromelic gangrene.(Chinese Medicine Update) From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Flaws, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2003 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

(Abstracted and adapted from The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus With Chinese Medicine by Bob Flaws, Lynn Kuchinski, and Robert Casanas, Blue Poppy Press, Boulder, CO, 2003)

Acromelic gangrene refers to dystrophy of tissue of an extremity due to impaired blood supply secondary to injury and/or disease. Acromelic gangrene is a not uncommon complication of peripheral vascular disease in patients with diabetes due to simultaneous neuropathy and abnormal leukocyte function. (...